the time the hacking happened. it is a big acts, but i do not think it solves the real issue and news international. >> i am satisfied that rebecca -- her leadership in the business and her standard of ethics, her standard of conduct throughout her career are very good. >> with big consumer company after big consumer company pulling their advertising from quoted news of the world," the commercial future -- from "news of the world," the commercial future was looking bleak. >> it is going to be investigated. there must be a full judicial inquiry. >> here is the other newspaper jewel acquired by rupert murdoch in 1969," the sun." could there be a sunday without a murdoch tabloid? unthinkable, surely. >> despite today's announcement, the fallout from the scandal seems to be far from over. scotland yard say they have identified 4000 possible hacking victims. an inquiry will start into possible wrongdoing by police officers. we have the latest on that part of the case. >> this famous newspaper titles may have been confined to history, but the scrutiny of its methods goes on. britain's most

news international who was editor at the time the hacking happened. it is a big acts, but i do not think it solves the real issue and news international. >> i am satisfied that rebecca -- her leadership in the business and her standard of ethics, her standard of conduct throughout her career are very good. >> with big consumer company after big consumer company pulling their advertising from quoted news of the world," the commercial future -- from "news of the world," the commercial future was looking bleak. >> it is going to be investigated. there must be a full judicial inquiry. >> here is the other newspaper jewel acquired by rupert murdoch in 1969," the sun." could there be a sunday without a murdoch tabloid? unthinkable, surely. >> despite today's announcement, the fallout from the scandal seems to be far from over. scotland yard say they have identified 4000 possible hacking victims. an inquiry will start into possible wrongdoing by police officers. we have the latest on that part of the case. >> this famous newspaper titles may have been confined to history, but the scrutiny

in three weeks the president continued to press for a big deal to raise the debt ceiling and to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion. >> i am still pushing for us to achieve a big deal. but what i also said to the group is if we can't do the biggest deal possible, then let's still be ambitious. let's still try to at least get a down payment on deficit reduction. we are obviously running out of time. and so what i have sd to the members of congress is that you need over the next 24 to 36 hours to give me some sense of what your plan is to get the debt ceiling raised through whatever mechanisms they can thk about anshow me a plan in terms of what you are doing for deficit and debt reduction. if they show me a serious plan, i'm ready to move. even if it requires some tough decisions on my part. and i'm hopeful that over the nextouple of days we'll se this long jam broken because the american people i think understandably want to see washington do its job. >> charlie: president obama ruled out a 2.4 trillion plan proposed by house republicans. >> my expectation is thayou will probay se

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too much involved. it's too big. it's too much trauma in our state. i thought the court would not be able to disentangle themselves from the drama. >> 16 years after the massacre, this court ruling about the three men who were turned over to the serbs, could have implications for similar cases against the dutch state. peer -- peter biles, "bbc world news." >> now the concern for the thousands caught up in draught. >> that's right. the draught from east africa is a human tragedy from unimaginable proportions. rains have failed for the past four seasons and more than 10 million people across eethyobeya, so man ya, are facing dire shortages of food, shelter, and medical support. >> day after day, mile after mile, they walk and walk. these are the people of the draught. but they're also escaping from somalia's endless civil war and they trek vast distances across land where it no longer seems to rain. some are sick, like alio who's just 6 months old. some will die along the way. these people we came across today are all from the same village in somalia. what they carry is all they pos

without leaving facebook. this is big for facebook. this is not so revolutionary for the users. >> are these the kind people that actually want to have video chat and video conferences? i thought that was more of a work scenario. >> with any audience, this kind of a video chat behavior is for the minority of your interactions because if you are in a certain place, once you introduce visual and audio cues, you have to have a controlled environment. i cannot have a video chat with you while i'm on the bus. this is by definition a rich interface for a minority of your communications. nonetheless, they spoke with like this to happen within facebook and not have you leave facebook and have you use your skype program. >> one thing that seems to be clear is that the business side, this comes in the same week that google has announced its social network is try to take on facebook as well. who was winning that battle? >> if you measure this on sheer numbers, no one touches facebook. during the announcement, they mentioned they have 750 million users. that is a big jump from the last tim

before that they were big problems with the engines and power generators to repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them portal authorities say they were lied to and shipped was only supposed to carry one hundred forty people but was loaded with over two hundred they were told it was carrying twenty more tales of pounds including a broken engine electricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issued and blocked emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests being made to the bulgaria sinking and more controversially into why two ships which reach the scene before the arabella didn't pick up a single person at the ports the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones. those are the good. old newcastle has which shocked there were about seven thousand people on a raft many had cuts and injuries that were bleeding we yelled for help i saw the board passers by in a different direction towards. the slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for answ

. this is big for facebook. this is not so revolutionary for the users. >> are these the kind people that actually want to have video chat and video conferences? i thought that was more of a work scenario. >> with any audience, this kind of a video chat behavior is for the minority of your interactions because if you are in a certain place, once you introduce visual and audio cues, you have to have a controlled environment. i cannot have a video chat with you while i'm on the bus. this is by definition a rich interface for a minority of your communications. nonetheless, they spoke with like this to happen within facebook and not have you leave facebook and have you use your skype program. >> one thing that seems to be clear is that the business side, this comes in the same week that google has announced its social network is try to take on facebook as well. who was winning that battle? >> if you measure this on sheer numbers, no one touches facebook. during the announcement, they mentioned they have 750 million users. that is a big jump from the last time we checked in. this is a big

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they did, they walked, took the bus, or a bike. this is a big effort on the part of the people of los angeles and all the entities here to address the congestion and gridlock to improve the quality of our air. the sacrifices and the burden that we share now, will have dividend's going into the future. >> this is all part of a billion dollar construction plan to extend the 4052 at an age of the lane. part of that included demolishing part of the bridge behind me while the crew is finished at up this morning they clean the debris off the freeway and now it is ready for traffic in the morning rush. this will happen all over again in 11 months when the crew was demolished the other side of the bridge of next year. >> clear skies around the bay area for this evening, temperatures in the '50s and '60s it will be a little bit warmer for tomorrow i will have the forecast coming up. hello parents, it's going to be a big school year. your kids are going to climb rope. they're going to have a year long tug war with the ceiling. and by the time they get out of 8th grade, they're going to do i

big problem with the ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and death adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertions today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival ex warlords who still command loyalties along regional and ethnic lines and could drag the country deeper into conflict as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i start neutral. we will be here late ninety's fighting each other really killing each other these people waiting in. little groups to control it in yet another obstacle for a young army that still has much to prove before it can stand on its own feet jason waterlogged in kabul for two. now in just a few minutes on the green card immigrants who are now being read the american citizen lottery and now being told that when treated their new lives will tell you why. the resignations keep coming in the british newspaper phone hacking scandal now that the u

are being drawn up for big cuts across the organization which will mean more job losses and possibly more strikes. jim buchanan, "bbc news." >> you're watching "bbc news." our main headline in this hour, a little controversy over the phone hacking scandal. two key executives of rupert murdoch's empire have resigned. at least 32 protestors have been killed during demonstrations against president assad. >> 15 million pounds have been raised for victims of the worst drought in east africa for decades. but the disaster emergency committee says it's not enough to help the 10 million people who are fighting famine and disease. our correspondent has been traveling through some of the worst affected area from north eastern kenya from where he reports. >> this is north eastern kenya, one of the poorest part of the country, the landscape parched, the lives of its people blighted by drought. in one hospital in the district of hobaswain we found three-month old umi. she weighs barely less than a bag of sugar. less than the weight of a healthy children. umi was weak at birth. >> my daughter is al

him and both of them hard while a big officer cohen was telling them if you don't stop hugging will have to use force when they didn't stop hugging you taste him and shock team three times going toward the heart. can cause death very very easily and this shocked me because i was seeing that in front of my eyes while i was beaten up on the floor of the ship of the navy itself i saw my brother bouncing and screaming suddenly from an electric shock. this was the only the only surprise that i have apart from that it was very clear that they're going to a keaton in a restless in the middle of the sea and do you think you and your brother were treated differently because you are this really definitely no. well i well i was beaten up by the soldiers a that also had these taser gun and all the other guns possible i was speaking to them in hebrew in israeli acts and with israeli slang we really points of common common culture looking into their eyes i saw the hardship of him to actually beat me up while he had to take sides. to decide to take a deep breath and then come back as a real fighte

with his son james was big news there and big news here. how else did the media react and what else have we learned about the scandal. >> republicans have laid out a responsible and detailed path forward, and the house has passed it. >> jon: the house passes a plan to fix the debt crisis, but the media condemn the effort. >> do we really have time for a plan that is really just show? >> and the great debt debate goes on with more distortion from the liberal press? >> there he's saying brinksmanship, trickery around the time of a deadline just to get your way is sort of economic terrorism. >> has the negative media coverage hurt the effort. >> g.o.p. presidential candidate michele bachmann goes on the defensive after a negative story about her health and ability. did that story fail the journalistic ethics test? >> having fired the imagination of a generation, a ship like no other, its place in history secured, the space shuttle pulls into port for the last time. >> and an end to an era, with no clear future for a u.s. role in space, if the media lost interest? and captain america is

are too much involved. it is too big. i would look for to be able to disentangle themselves fomrom this drama. >> 16 years after the massacre, the court ruling about the three men that were turned over to the serbs could have implications for similar cases against the dutch state. >> a disaster unfolding for tens of thousands of people in east africa. >> the un refugee agency has called the drought in east africa and human tragedy of unimaginable proportions. 10 milliond more than people in ethiopia, somalia are facing loss of medical support and food. >> day after day, mile after mile, they walk and walk. these are the people of the drought, but they are also escaping from somalia's civil war. they trek vast distances over land where it no longer seems to rain. some are sick, like this child that is six months old. some will die along the way. these people are all from the same village in somalia. what they carry is all they possess. >> it was too long. we had no food. we were carrying children on our back. we had threats from wild animals, all kinds of suffering. cox this group o

the bbc's and stubborn and provocative with a the bbc license fee frozen, plans are drawn up for big cuts across the organization. that means more job losses and possibly more strikes. >> you are watching bbc news. in a firestorm of controversy over the u.k. telephone hacking scandal, two executives have resigned. at least 32 protesters have been killed during demonstrations against assad. in the global economy, it has been announced that there will be a summit next week in brussels to discuss how to handle the debt crisis and had to provide first aid for greece. eight european banks failed stress tests. >> the financial health of europe's banks has come under the spotlight once again get 90 of the biggest banks across the continent have been tested to see how they will cope with the constraint of another recession and financial meltdown. the stress tests, at a difficult time for european markets. investors are alalready on high alert. stress tests were seen as too soft, especially when two irish banks collapsed after being given a clean bill of health. the european banking authority

the president to raise the limit in three stages through next year. a. >>> a once big brand name is no more. borders bookstore chain said today it will liquidate after failing to find a buyer. they're closing all 400 retail stores, all of borders nearly 11,000 employees will now lose their jobs. >>> and technology giant cisco systems announced it's eliminating 6,500 jobs, part of an efficiency move. that's in cisco's effort to cut $1 billion in annual costs to the company. >>> this was the last day in afghanistan for america's best-known general, david petraeus, who transferred command of u.s. and nato led troops to his replacement, general john allen. a west point graduate with a princeton phd, easily the most celebrated modern day general officer is leaving to run the cia as the u.s. prepares for a gradual drawdown from afghanistan. >>> when we come back here tonight, new research on head injuries and dementia and alzheimer's and a group that the researchers are most concerned about tonight. >>>, and later, they may have come up short in the end, but the u.s. women's world cup team m

is big for facebook. i do not know it is revolutionary for the user. >> all the people using facebook -- i understand a lot of people are deciding they do not want to use facebook. do they want to have a chat and video conferences? i thought that was more of their work scenario. >> with this audience, with any audience, this kind of video chat behavior is for the minority of your interactions. if you are in a certain place, once you introduce visual and audio cues, you have to have a controlled environment. i cannot do a video chat with you while i am on the bus going to work. that is complicated. i can always do a text chat. this is a rich interface for a minority of your communications. but facebook once those to happen within facebook, and not have you leave to use your skype program. >> i think i understand the technical side of this. one thing that seems to be clear from the business side is it comes in the same week that google announced its social network. it is trying to take on facebook as well. who is winning that battle? >> it depends how you measure it. on sheer n

on phones of war widows being hacked. seems that's making a lot of headlines in england. how big is the fallout of this story going to get? >> well, i mean it's reached a level to everyone in the uk has found astonishing. a story for a long time has been bubbling under and has been the preserve of a group of people who are interested in the media. now it's coming of something that's of obsessive interest in the country that are normal people, have not done something wrong, widows of people who have been killed fighting for the country in a war, absolutely astonishing. >> maybe a dumb yes question, why were they hacking these voice mails, using these for scoops in the paper? was that the intent? >> right, right, exactly. what's astonishing is shows they were doing it on fishing expeditions, not when they had a big story they wanted to confirm. whenever they had somebody's phone number, they'd go through their voicemails to see if they could find. they were looking at the voice mails years after the death of the soldiers basically hoping to get good, private information that would giv

-- there is still a big problem with corruption. nato's deployment has peaked. the question now is will the afghans be able to do the job of the british soldiers have been doing as they start to leave? >> that is the question indeed. on the ground, the fighting continues. in washington, three american senators, three -- two democrats and one republican pended op-ed in the "new york times" which called for a more rapid withdrawal of all american combat troops. tom udall is among those arguing the case. thank you for joining me. you criticize president obama for not bringing back american troops fast enough from afghanistan. what would you like him to do? >> the thing we have to realize is the thing we went in with objectives. those objectives were displacing a government that was harboring terrorists. terrorist camps, al qaeda was hooked up with them, and osama bin laden was in the region. now we have an elected government, we have completely changed the landscape, we have trained approximately 400,000 afghans in terms of army and police. al qaeda is decreased to about 100 low-level

britain, news corp. has made big business mistakes in america. it owns dow jones -- it bought at dow jones in 2007 and two years later it was worth $2.8 billion, less than their purchase price. myspace was bought for $580 million in 2005, sold for $35 million this year. but one of their largest shareholder still has huge confidence in the company. >> you have seen a business that has evolved, moving from newspapers and to other media, and moving more into a fee- based business model as opposed to advertising based. i think there is an awful lot of good steps that have been made, and i am very impressed overall with the company's success. >> rupert murdoch is back in america, more comfortable perhaps in a country where big investors still back him as the chief executive. >> here is a man, even though he is 80 years old, warren buffett is 80 years old and he is doing well, sumner redstone, and these are men with long track records of great success. to not want some of that wisdom in there, i think, would be a mistake. as will rogers said, good judgment comes from experience, and a lot

underfed. >> he is a big -- severely malnourished. >> with the right supplement, he and so many others can survive. >> we are saving children's lives with the generosity of the british public. but we can also help these communities rebuild their lives, restock their animals. and when they finally rains, harvest the water. that is equally important. >> help came too late for this baby, buried at just 20 days old. the sharp twist around his grave stop hyenas from digging up his body. -- the sharp twigs and around his grave stop hyenas from the king of his body. -- from digging up his body. >> now a woman who has spent her career stumping us all. you probably do not know laura jacobson's name, but chances are you have picked up one of proposals. decided it is time to put your dictionary on the shelf. she talks about what it takes to make a career in crossword. >> i got it, ok. my name is laura jacobson and i am a chris of herbalist -- cruciverbalist, which means, someone who makes of crossword puzzles. cruci coming from crossword and verbal is coming from word. -- a verbalist coming from

british officers say privately they are -- there is still a big problem with corruption. nato's deployment has peaked. the question now is will the afghans be able to do the job of the british soldiers have been doing as they start to leave? >> that is the question indeed. on the ground, the fighting continues. in washington, three american senators, three -- two democrats and one republican pended op-ed in the "new york times" which called for a more rapid withdrawal of all american combat troops. tom udall is among those arguing the case. thank you for joining me. you criticize president obama for not bringing back american troops fast enough from afghanistan. what would you like him to do? >> the thing we have to realize is the thing we went in with objectives. those objectives were displacing a government that was harboring terrorists. terrorist camps, al qaeda was hooked up with them, and osama bin laden was in the region. now we have an elected government, we have completely changed the landscape, we have trained approximately 400,000 afghans in terms of army and police. a

losses, big concerns over the solver debt crisis. report in a german newspaper is speculating that england may have to be included the bailout. so the european debt crisis is extending beyond grease, portugal and ireland and potentially italy. this is where we're looking at the european stock markets. off by more than 1% with the paris cac. reasons do with the greek debt crisis. a move away from the partial default. london ftse where banks are affected but not quite so badly as in germany and france up by about quarter of a percent and the losses are 2/3 of a percent for the seger smi. we'll have more of that coming up. >>> in terms of the currency markets, here we are, the main story here is that the euro remains under severe pressure, and i think that currency traders are talking in terms of the picture we've seen in recent weeks on the dollar coming to an end and that the dollar will remain in these kind of circumstances the safe haven currency. so looking at 1.5967. again, the pound under a lot of pressure. the euro, 1.4153 and 80.72. remarket stability for the yen dlafrmt paul

they don't. big business is scared. if there's a default, they're going to lose a whole lot. >> reporter: americans don't like hearing about politicians losing their tempers during negotiations. >> i understand it's difficult. my job is very difficult. i don't have the option of walking out of a meeting. that would be considered completely inappropriate. >> reporter: many americans believe the debt ceiling needs to be raised but not everybody. >> if i have a credit card with a certain limit and i'm overspending, the answer is not to increase my spending limit. >> is this going to put a greater burden on us as the american people and i just don't think it will help the situation. >> reporter: but there are eternal optimists. >> no matter what they do, we'll survive. >> reporter: a hopeful note as we head into the home stretch on the debt crisis. fe lee shah taylor, cnn, new york. >> let's go over to south africa, where david cameron, the prime minister of united kingdom will be speaking a bit later on alongside the south african president jacob zu ba. that is the conference a

in big trouble with the law after she attacks a judge in court. court security officer adam dodson was the first to take her down. i talked with him earlier and asked what did the judge said to make her go ballistic. >> the judge was telling her to stop using foul language and if she kept using foul language in her court then she would be held in contempt and face more charges, and the lady was very upset already and she just basically disregarded anything the judge said and continued to talk. >> you've been doing this for a while now. have you seen anybody react this way especially towards a judge? >> i have seen people react this way but only in training videos, and the training they send us to. not in actually any courtroom i've worked in in the 3 1/2 years i've been there. >> when you grabbed her and you subdued her. what happened? was she remorseful? did you have to take her away? what happened? >> she was not remorseful at all actually. i had to administer the handcuffs on the floor. she was resisting arrest. she was fighting with me. another bailiff tried to hold her feet. s

the the schole but as soon as he realized that there were this kind of was too big and it could not be backtracked and longer continue as i think the kind of position that we will investigate everything to do go. to the end of it and we will make sure that. the police investigations are going on. it is difficult to see at the moment of this will turn out in the public view but his reading of the gone down very much in sort of moment we can only wait and see what tomorrow subcommittee hearings will actually bring more about what kind of a relations will be so that's the british problem is to cover the british police in the last twenty four hours britain's two most senior police officers resigned over the scandal how these allegations affecting the force right now the public's trust in police saying well there's been a report of about one hundred thirty thousand pounds worth of. gold given to the police in england but at the moment they are telling cleary it's going on on every level within the police outside the police with some communities but the judge as well in all every kind of

have a big screen in effect at the civic center if you want to check that out. festivities start at 11:00 this morning. >> everybody has been worried about armageddon, but san francisco is really dealing with a broad closure of its own. >>> yeah, senator mark leno's contribution of gay and lesbian communities and the challenges they face as a polling booth. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the golden gate bridge this morning. >> a live look across the golden gate bridge. you will want to give yourself some actual time if you're planning on crossing that bridge this link are you southbound and northbound connections to the golden gate bridge in sentences of our close right now. so is the macarthur tunnel. that's part of the construction project area during tonight's closure, they will complete the transition from temporary traffic lanes to the new permanent drought. everything is scheduled to reopen this morning at 11:00. certainly, avoid that area. looks like traffic is running rather smoothly, but certainly doing it all under a layer of fog. >> a thick layer of fog this money. w

session, the big numbers, the nonfarm payrolls out friday. i think the data that more people watch around the world's financial markets than anything else. economists we have been speaking to forecast a gain of 125,000 jobs, plus 125,000 jobs in the month of june. however, that is not enough, because the consensus is that under the present circumstances the united states economy needs to create 150,000 to 200,000 jobs every months, and that's just to keep pace with population growth. so demographics, demographics, demographics. let's look at where the u.s. futures stand in the pre-market action. slightly mixed. broader market off a bit. but the good news is both the dow and the nasdaq are looking right now for gains of around about a tenth of 1%. andrew? >>> now, top u.s. politicians gathered at the white house trying to beat a looming deadline to raise the nation's borrowing limb. but it's hardly a meeting of minds. and nasa is fueling up "atlantis," hoping to launch the final shuttle flight in a few hours from now. but there's one thing that could still get in the way. welcome. i

the reason john boehner says the talks have broken down on the big deal. the white house pushing back saying that boehner had initially agreed to tax increases as part of a deal. where does it go from here? the white house saying that the president still at that meeting today will be pushing for that big deal because they don't believe this is the time to back down. but no doubt, the latest developments will put a great amount of pressure on these talks this evening. >> there has been some compromise. why though might that not be enough to kind of put things back on track? >> reporter: that's right. the compromise you're talking about there, at one point the democrats and president in particular had said that social security and medicare would not be part of this overall deal but in recent weeks the president has been warming up to the idea and putting social security and medicare on the table. but there's been a lot of pressure from the left from liberal democrats who don't believe that some of the hardest working americans should be paying the price while the wealthiest americans ar

are looking at what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is this is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next. coming up here on the searching a far. reaching sank in russia's volga river continues we'll bring you all the latest from the scene. believe that emerge that you did on sally. find out why twenty decals and when is the last received a lot ran out on their way to the united states. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the afghan president senior advisor in the capital kabul along with one of the countries that peace local security forces say they've already killed the militants who carried out the attack well the murders come at less than a week after how many. probably he rounded south of the country down the taliban is stepping up its assault on afghan officials as native combat units begin its withdrawal from the feline one hundred eva control seven designated areas to local forces but andrew activist jim branch of the tree of the minutes he faces be behind .

spring pattern. now that it's summer we're stuck in an active and persistent summer pattern with a big ridge of high pressure entrenched over the middle part of the country. the good news is we have relief on the way for the northeast by the end of the week. the jet stream and cooler air comes in from the north. however, by the time we head into the weekend that heat, the 90s and the triple digits, building back into the northern plains so no relief in sight at all for much of the south, in particular, the southern plains and, ann, keep in mind we're coming up on what's typically the hottest time of the year and that's july. >> thanks for the warning. >>> in washington, where the prospect of a major deal on raising the debt ceiling and fix the country's budget problems seems to be slipping away. chief white house correspondent chuck todd now joins us. chuck? >> reporter: ann, it wasn't the heat, it was the debt ceiling here in washington. lots of heated rhetoric. it got ugly and even a bizarre proposal in congress that could be a back doorway to solve the crisis. here's the president i

for starters more than eighty percent of troops are illiterate a big problem with the ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference between life and death adding to the woes are widespread drug use and desertions today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival ex warlords who still command loyalties along regional and ethnic lines and could drag the country deeper into conflict as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i start neutral. he will be here late ninety's fighting each other really killing each other these people. groups or other groups to control it in yet another obstacle for a young army that still has much to prove before it can stand on its own feet jason waterlog in kabul for our team. coming up here on r.t. third saying. the recovery operation but for you that which sank in russia's volga river continues we bring you all the latest from the scene also. believe that emergency there was a

friend having dinner and riding rse back and thatsort of thing. >> yes, she made a big point in the hearings this afternoon saying she hadn'tbeen to downing street while david cameron was prime minister and contrasted it with the fac she'd been there a l under gordon brown and tony blair and the reason she hasn't been to downing street is she doesn't have to. they see each other ithe country side in the little village and easier to meethere an gng to downing street and have it in the papers. >> the solution to bad journalism has been more journalism and government has been far and ay bystanders and i don't think the committee hearing did a lot to change that. i think the lines of inquiry will continue to advance will come from the guardian and new york times and will come from the wall street journal and probably not from the mps of parliament. >> charlie: but including the wall street journal. >> wall street journal i thought was hilarious the other day saying there's an editorial saying you're all doing overkill there's so much and all hard-hitting. you have a $40 billion company